- Date
- June 25, 1993, 17:55 local (22:55 UTC)
- Place
- Eveleth, MN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7131VMooney M20C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930625020699A
- Case key
- 15748
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Probable cause
The pilot in command's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During landing touchdown, as the airplane was settling, the pilot said '...all of a sudden the tail lifted up, went to the right, we were headed across the runway to the left at a 45 degree angle.' Then, just as she was pulling back the power, the aircraft hit some 'marshy' land, and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7131V
- Reported as
- Mooney M20C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20-0032
- Airframe hours
- 2,221
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sally A. Ness
- Registered owner
- Sally A. Ness
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 26, 1992 · 2,027 hours before
- Departed
- STC · St. Cloud, MN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- EVM · Eveleth-Virginia Municipa, runway 27, 4,694 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 515 total · 400 in this make and model · 370 as pilot in command · 79 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 14 knots, gusting 23
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EVM, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.